Activity Monitor Anatomy

Introduction Link to heading Imagine you opened Activity Monitor to check how much memory your application consumes. But wait, which number should you actually look at? Suppose there&rsquo;s &ldquo;Memory&rdquo; showing 800 MB, and &ldquo;Real Memory&rdquo; showing 1 GB. What&rsquo;s the difference? Note Activity Monitor doesn&rsquo;t display those two readings by default. To show them, you need…